A provocative new book examines questions about Asian American assimilation and identity
The question -- which considers whether Asian Americans will fully assimilate into the multicultural elite -- is at the heart of"The Loneliest Americans," a provocative new book out this week from journalist and author Jay Caspian Kang. And the answer, according to Kang, is complicated.
The doctrinaire ways in which we think about race in America -- that Whites are on top, Asians are a little bit below Whites but basically Whites, Latinos are somewhere in the middle and Black people are at the bottom -- will start to shift.You write in your book of two Asian Americas.
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